Well it's Wednesday, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements.
(Normally, announcements are on Tuesdays, but we moved this one over to Wednesday to line up with our big launch event in Pinehurst, NC. )
A lot was announced today, so I...

As we come to the end of 2013, it seems like a good time to take a look back and a look forward as well.
I found a great source of information on the venerable S/360 project on an IBM site, with a title of The 360 Revolution . It...

What: Accelerate with ATS: DS8870 Technical Update IBM System Storage DS8000® series is the flagship disk storage platform within the IBM System Storage portfolio. The new IBM System Storage DS8870 represents the latest in this series of high-performance,...

Several times in a row, Mainz once again had been selected to become the core ITSO Redbooks site for the updates of the main DS8000 Redbooks publications. In Q4/2012, we had hosted the Redbooks for the first generation of DS8870....

True flash architecture – that means being designed for the purpose of ultra-high performance from scratch, and not being limited by a Device Adapter, or FC-AL shortcomings. If you look at the specs of typical SSDs of today, each single drive could do...

Recently announced for the DS8870 , the high-performance flash enclosur e (HPFE) is a RAID storage enclosure that can support up to thirty 400 GB encryption capable flash cards (1.8-inch, 46 mm form factor) in a 1U rack space. It...

The next era of Smarter Computing starts today! The world is changing. Is your infrastructure ready? Today IBM has released several new Enterprise Systems, here is a detailed peak into the storage associated systems. New IBM System Storage DS8870 The DS8870...

Like at the end of 2012 for the first DS8870 release, then again in the second quarter of this year for important Easy tier updates, the European Storage Support Center in Mainz was one more time the host of ITSO Redbooks residencies...

For several years already the DS8000 series has featured two types of space efficient volumes:
Track space efficient (TSE) volumes
Extent space efficient (ESE) volumes
Track space efficient (TSE) volumes are used as target...

I admit, it's not a very appealing title for a blog post. But it's serious matter that pertains to data security and national regulations.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP...

Recent news about the new IBM System z13 were the initiator to look back over the last years and summarize IBM synergies between IBM Storage and System z mainframe computers.
IBM System Storage synergy with System z has long tradition at IBM,...